# Invading Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764 "2006-03-24T19:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/101 "2006-03-26T17:26:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > We’ll even call our sofas “chamberlains.” Chesterfields! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/102 "2006-03-26T18:50:31Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > Chesterfields! Hey, he/she is trying. No need to call the super secret special Mountie squad and have him/her shipped to the Alert re-education camp. He/she at least acknowledged our inborn superiority. It is also a first offence, so a stern warning should be enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/103 "2006-03-27T01:57:30Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Hey, he/she is trying. No need to call the super secret special Mountie squad and have him/her shipped to the Alert re-education camp. He/she at least acknowledged our inborn superiority. It is also a first offence, so a stern warning should be enough. 2nd offence: A peeved, sidelong glance 3rd offence: A gruff look and a throat-clearing “Ahem!” 4th offence: A hands-on-hips gesture and an “OK, then!” 5th offence: Forfeiture of mukluks etc. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/104 "2006-03-27T03:42:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > If only we can get in on your national single-payer health-care system, we surrender! I dunno about a stern warning, eh? Didja notice how he or she called it a _national_ single payer system, eh? Like the poster didn’t even know that it was provincially-run, eh? The OP thought it’s nationally-run, like we’re France or Denmark, eh? Naw, we’re Canajan, eh, and we’ve, like, got provinces. They’re kinda like states, eh? Maybe the Alert prison camp is called for, eh? Like this guy is from Florida; some time in Alert would really make him respectful of his new masters, eh? But you gotta love that the poster agrees on Canadian rules for football and multicolo **u** red money. So maybe, in spite of his or her spelling, we could, like, maybe not put this poster in Alert. Maybe, like, Yellowknife, would be good, eh? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/105 "2006-03-27T06:28:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > We surrender! We’ll accept ice hockey as our national sport. We’ll use weird-looking multicolored money with the Queen’s picture on it. We’ll play football by Canadian rules and put maple syrup on baked beans. We’ll even call our sofas “chamberlains.” If only we can get in on your national single-payer health-care system, we surrender! Umm… why not just MOVE there and take advantage of that wonderful health care system now? Why wait for an invasion? And while there are a few aspects of Canadian football I rather like (fair catches are for wimps!), any league where Dieter Freaking Brock could be a star can’t be all that! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/106 "2006-03-27T22:53:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > But you gotta love that the poster agrees on Canadian rules for football and multicolo **u** red money. So maybe, in spite of his or her spelling, we could, like, maybe not put this poster in Alert. Maybe, like, Yellowknife, would be good, eh? Yellowknife, no. Maybe Rankin Inlet. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764/107 "2006-03-28T00:40:01Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Umm… why not just MOVE there and take advantage of that wonderful health care system now? Why wait for an invasion? > > And while there are a few aspects of Canadian football I rather like (fair catches are for wimps!), any league where Dieter Freaking Brock could be a star can’t be all that! Hey, we gave you Warren Moon, that makes up for Brock. Besides, Brock was 34 and injured the one year he played for the Rams, and he wasn’t awful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invading-canada/349764.md?page=5)